We are moving most of our servers to a colocation facility with better cooling, power, and network, which should improve uptime in general. This procedure will start on Monday, April 1st at 08:00 (PDT) and should take 3 days to complete, during which our entire project will be unavailable.
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Good luck with the move! Will you or others have physical access over weekends to kick kit if it becomes necessary like you have now? Oh and BTW, don't forget to take loads of pictures for posterity :-)

Will you or others have physical access over weekends to kick kit if it becomes necessary like you have now?

As Matt said when he brought up this possible move a while ago, one major advantage of it is that it will be among other servers in a place where someone is always on duty to kick them right away. Not necessarily one of the Seti project staff, but someone who knows what he's doing with computers of this kind.

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Hope all goes as planned and moving day does not bring too many surprises.
Might have to print out rebooting order instructions and such for the colo staff, eh?

Will we still have a trusty Cricket graph to monitor traffic from the new location? Or will it be buried in with the other traffic?

I better make sure my furnace is still ready to rock, 3 days without Seti and this spring has not been very warm so far this year...LOL. Must keep the kitties warm.
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And on a related note, will the servers be able to keep their old IP addresses in the new facility?

I know we should be using DNS and it should all 'just work' - but human beings have a habit of fiddling with things, and then forgetting to 'un-fiddle' with them again. We recently had a couple of cases of people trying (and failing) to download work from .18, six months after you retired it - the legacy of some long-forgotten episode when whichever elderly server had .13 at the time was throwing a hissy fit.

I just set it to a resource share of zero. Then it only grabs work units when SAH doesn't have anything to do for either CPU or GPU. Sometimes E@H is a little too generous on the CPU side but the GPU side units will only download one at a time like this, and never if SAH has one ready.
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Will this move improve system responsiveness? No endless download attempts for AP and standard 6.03 WU's anymore?
I understood that the overall bandwidth avail is OK, however, the servers sending out the WU's are overwhelmed constantly.

Will this move improve system responsiveness? No endless download attempts for AP and standard 6.03 WU's anymore?
I understood that the overall bandwidth avail is OK, however, the servers sending out the WU's are overwhelmed constantly.

GS
Germany

If I remember correctly the original announcement about the possibility of making this move, it would allow for more bandwidth for downloads (I could be wrong). The problem is partly bandwidth, partly the servers.

Also, you should go to the Number Crunching forum and read the TCP fix thread. It will help with your downloads.

____________DavidSitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

If I remember correctly the original announcement about the possibility of making this move, it would allow for more bandwidth for downloads (I could be wrong).

I hope so... there ends up being even more traffic if there isn't enough bandwidth due to all the retries (ie uploads don't resume.) That would be a great improvement and well worth the outage.
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